There’s a new term floating around the halls and conference rooms of today’s IT departments. The term, hybrid IT, describes a new approach to how IT supports the business, but what exactly is hybrid IT and how does it fit into ongoing storage discussions?

Hybrid IT offers the best of two worlds: traditional IT infrastructure combined with today’s software-defined, virtualized environments. Hybrid offers a combination of IT components (servers, storage, and networking) in agile, flexible, cloud-ready, and datacenter-friendly configurations. It enables flexibility in deploying on-premises and cloud solutions that best match the needs of the business, and the hybrid model can be tailored to fit the dynamic workloads that IT environments face in this evolving world.

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